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Spike's Bitches 24: I'm Very Seldom Naughty.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


vw bug - May 26, 2005 7:37:19 am PDT #1221 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

Can I ask for a little favor from the universe? I know I've used up an awful lot the last week, but I'd really like one more.

Could people stop making "little clerical errors" that REALLY FUCK UP MY LIFE???

Turns out this job doesn't come with health insurance.


Susan W. - May 26, 2005 7:38:28 am PDT #1222 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Oh, shit, vw. That sucks. Did they explain to you how the mistake happened?


vw bug - May 26, 2005 7:40:05 am PDT #1223 of 10001
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Did they explain to you how the mistake happened?

The person I'm replacing has health insurance, so the girl that interviewed me assumed I would, so she told me so. Well, it turns out that he's working 25 hours a week (over the 20-hour minimum), and since I'm only working 15 (under the 20-hour minimum), I'm not eligible.


Gudanov - May 26, 2005 7:40:24 am PDT #1224 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Turns out this job doesn't come with health insurance.

That's an awful big little error.

Being that my workplace often has California people coming out, they tend to think that temperatures in the 90s are okay, but they get wilted by the insane humidity.


-t - May 26, 2005 7:41:16 am PDT #1225 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

We put a window unit in because the central air didn't get the bedroom cool enough. No shame in having A/C.

It always used to amuse me when my uncle would apologize about how humid it was when we'd visit California. 'It's so muggy" he'd say, and we'd laugh and laugh.

The office copy machine isn't working. The maintenance people aren't calling me back. A good 60% of my job is making copies. Fortunately, nothing in my copy-when-the-machine-is-fixed pile is urgently needed 5 minutes ago, but I am going to be so bored until they get the damn thing fixed.


Aims - May 26, 2005 7:41:43 am PDT #1226 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I woke up this morning thinking about Aimée's disturbing link and Gris's WHOIS results, and I'm starting to wonder if maybe she should call the police. I have a big visceral squick about curtailing free speech and regulating the internets, and a childish squick about tattling; on the other hand, this Graham Casady person has posted fairly explicit directions for hunting down toxic plants and poisoning members of a specific ethnic group.

Thing is, which police do I call? The ones here, the ones in Colorado, or the ones in Cambridge which is the return address?


Glamcookie - May 26, 2005 7:44:19 am PDT #1227 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

vw, is there a way that you could work the extra 5 hours a week to get the insurance? I hate when mistakes like that happen. {{{vw}}}


vw bug - May 26, 2005 7:46:10 am PDT #1228 of 10001
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They can't afford it. They're budget is really tight right now, which is why they cut the hours of the position in the first place.


Sparky1 - May 26, 2005 7:48:27 am PDT #1229 of 10001
Librarian Warlord

Aimee, I think that it would be appropriate to call your Postmaster or Postal Inspector and your local FBI office because it involves the federal mail.


-t - May 26, 2005 7:50:43 am PDT #1230 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, vw, I'm sorry. That's a bad mistake for them to have made.